This is a misguided, if well…

This is a misguided, if well-intentioned, attempt to get more houses built in Ontario. The result will be loss of valuable farmland, green space. Just as important is the type of housing that gets built is exactly the least helpful. It will be mainly single family homes built at low density such that it will cost taxpayers far too much to get services to them. Urban sprawl is costly both to the environment and to our pocketbooks.

What we need is a concerted effort to build homes within the boundaries of existing communities and cities. We need to increase the density of existing residential areas.

This is all well known among planners, which suggests to me this decision to allow development of the greenbelt is driven more by pressure from developers than a real desire to reduce housing costs to Ontarians.